And… where… might… this… be
Asking for a friend? Do you live in Canada?
Perhaps it’s changed but I recall pot in the US even when legal for recreational purposes was hard to get… isn’t it along the lines of you’re buzzed into a building wherein they take you’re ID, make a copy, keep it while you’re in shop, then you’re given the product in a closed container wherein you need to keep it in the container?
Or am I wrong and if you’re 21+ you can just waltz into a shop and purchase it like a lottery ticket? I remember being in California for a day when flying to New York (flight layover) and I was walking around at night by myself… the surrounding environment reeked of weed, people lit up everywhere… is that legal (public consumption?)
Surely people would complain, especially the elderly… I’ve known older people to call the police (where I lived in America and here in Aus) under the mere pretense of “those young ruffians are smoking reefers in the park, we can smell it”…
Also… why is vaping becoming so common, especially amongst teenagers… vaping nicotine is incredibly addictive, and if people don’t realise that juul pods are just as addictive as cigarettes we might have per capita consumption of nicotine back to what it was forty/fifty years ago… I don’t think banning anything is the correct answer, funding programs to educate the populace on the potential harms is pivotal… it’s (probably) a far cry away from darts, you avoid the inhalation of tobacco specific nitrosamines, benzene etc… still no less addictive, and a nicotine addiction can be quite crippling (then there’s the prospect of chronic, vasoconstriction mediated myocardial injury etc), if the general populace vaping rises to like 50-60%… the tobacco industry is winning yet again, profiting off the misery of others
And whilst this is most certainly mass hysteria, the concerning case reports regarding black market THC carts has caused me to entirely abstain from vaping cannabis… I don’t know what adulterants were used to extract the product into that little… oil… cart (what is it… the yellow, waxy looking cannabis product one puts in the vape?) however reports stipulate vitamin E toxicity may be in part to blame… that and I know BHO is sometimes extracted using voliatile, poisonous chemicals… What if traces are present in the end product… this is why we need adequate federal regulation
Also, in Europe they had something called hash/hashish, does this not exist in America/Canada? It appears to be very prevalent in all of Europe/much of the Middle East and Northern Africa, but absent in Australia, Canada and the US… it’s pretty great, I don’t understand why one would entirely phase out a different type of product… surely there’s some cash to be made from this, the eager and experimental customer would certainly purchase some if they had the option.
In Aus pot is highly illegal, like possession will net you a court date where I live… however it’s incredibly easy to get, cheap… but you won’t find people lighting up on the street (police will get em)… we even have sniffer dogs at public train stations/roaming the cities in certain states looking to catch and charge people for minor possession… it’s draconian. Granted the ACT just legalised cannabis (possession and growing you’re own)… here people use on the beach, at parks or on hiking trails… if you’re rural like I am then kids will go into wooded areas
Furthermore… pot is bad for you… there isn’t enough data, but there IS enough to suggest that heavy, chronic usage over many years (or even occasional use under the age of seventeen) may predispose one already predisposed to psychiatric ailment… the same can be said about cognition regardless of predisposition, whether the effects regarding cognition are reversible remains inconclusive as varying studies have reached differing outcomes. However it should be stated compared to alcohol… pot is far, far, far, FAR, far, far, far, FAARRR less toxic (for most that is… for those who go acutely psychotic following intake its a very different story)… even then, the internal damage induced is minute compared to booze
A new study (meta analysis, so weak body of evidence) suggests regular cannabis users (more than once per week) develop subclinical changes in cardiac morphology/structure (deleterious in nature)… now whether this is due to the fact that most people (here and in Europe) mix cannabis with tobacco is unknown, however for the vast majority a heavy smoke will raise heart rate substantially, to the point of (sometimes) resting tachycardia… occasional case reports regarding cannabis induced arrhythmia or even sudden death in those with genetic predisposition (undiagnosed hypertrophic cardiomyopathy for instance) exist… however whether the deaths stem from cannabis alone or the predisposition inducing SCD (which happens to many with HCM with or without drug use) remains to be deciphered.
